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Phpauction's minimal server requirements are as follows:

- an Apache web server
- PHP 4 (or above)
- MySQL Database

The recommended web server is Apache web server. Some problems have been ecountered while running Phpauction under different web servers.

MySQL being the most popular Open Source Database designed for speed, power and precision in mission critical, heavy load use was the obvious choice for Phpauction.
MySQL is the only database for which Phpauction offers support. The porting to other RDBMS is planned for future versions.

Phpauction also requires the ability to set up cron jobs (under *nix systems). This is needed to periodically run the script (cron.php) responsible for checking expired auctions, updating the database accordingly, and sending notification e-mails to sellers and buyers.
If you don't have access to cron, there are other possible solutions to run cron.php (see Tutorials section in the Manual). You may also set an option in admin to automatically have cron.php run from your index.php page.

For windows users there's the possibility to run cron.php using the auctionupdate.c utility you can find in the cron directory. There's a README file which explains how to use it, also.